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Pageflakes was an Ajax -based startpage or personal web portal similar to Netvibes , My Yahoo! , Myhomepage , iGoogle , and Microsoft Live that operated from 2005 until January 2012. The site was organized into tabs, each tab containing user-selected modules called Flakes . Each Flake varied in content; information such as RSS/Atom feeds, Calendar, Notes, Web search, weather forecast, del.icio.us bookmarks, Flickr photos, social networking tools like Facebook , YouTube , Twitter , email and user-created modules. Pagecasts allowed users to share their pages publicly, allowing them to share a curated page of content that would be of interest to others (in essence a widget-based precursor to pages shared through content sharing sites such as Pinterest).Pageflakes had 250,000 Flakes and over 130,000 Pagecasts .
History
Pageflakes was launched at the end of 2005. The site began in Germany, but was headquartered in San Francisco, United States . The company was initially privately funded. Balderton Capital (originally Benchmark Capital Europe) invested an undisclosed amount in May 2006. Dan Cohen was appointed CEO in January 2007. [1] Pageflakes was acquired by LiveUniverse in 2008. [2]
Underlying Technology
Some of the major components used for building the framework were ASP.NET 2.0, including the ASP.NET AJAX components, and JavaScript. However developers building flakes could use a more diverse toolset. [3]
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References
- ↑ "Benchmark Invests in Pageflakes: Ajax Desktop War Heats Up" . Retrieved 2007-06-05 .
- ↑ "LiveUniverse Acquires Pageflakes" . Retrieved 2016-10-19 . | ]
- ↑ "Building flakes for Pageflakes" . Archived from the original on 2007-06-06 . Retrieved 2007-06-05 .
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